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He rose from the dead to accomplish one last thing.
Oops meant Constantine. Had a brain cramp.Remember, Christianity falls apart if
(a) Christ didn't rise from the dead, and
(b) Didn't ascend into heaven.
Wasn't Alexander the Great born BEFORE Christ?
There were various "versions" of what Christianity meant and the nature of Christ in those early days. The Council of Nicea settled those issues and gave us the Nicene Creed, which is a pretty good definition of what it means to be Catholic/Christian.
The big issue for Holy Mother Church was the embracement of temporal power. Uh uh. While it may seem nice to live like a prince, that ain't what Christ intended. You're supposed to be shepherds, not lords. The occasional hob nob with the common folk don't make you a shepherd, not with your flocks be devastated by the wolves, some of which are in sheep's clothing, or worse, shepherds.
Also, you don't accept the Queen's shilling. I don't care if the State is giving away millions and a share of that is mighty tasty. Once you start sucking on the government teat, you're tied to that government and you will compromise yourself to keep the $$ coming.
Now that I’ve stopped ranting, I've come to believe that Catholicism is a series of inconvenient truths. If you follow Her teachings, you're not going to be popular. The tree may bend, but it will never submit to the wind. Submitting will cause the tree to uproot and die.
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Until Nicea from what I remember there was an argument re whether the most important thing was either that Christ rose as the most important part or what he did when he was alive.
).If you're talking about marriage, even evolutionary psychologists are only beginning to understand the critical importance of a monogamous commitment in raising healthy kids. (see Peterson, Jordan B. in particular) The idea that monogamy is a modern aberration has been ended.
Actually Kep is right, they "settled" the debate about the divinity of Christ by affirming it. Thus, the Nicene Creed. Trinitarianism was not formalized until a few decades later. They apparently also issued the first set of canon laws, one of which was the prohibition of self-castration (That was a thing?!
Biblical canon took a few hundred years to fully shake out. So the apocrypha, esp. books that referenced reincarnation, were not specifically rejected at Nicea, but over time. The early church also did a good job of destroying a lot of the rejected texts, so it seems no one is quite sure exactly which books were rejected.
Looked him up. Skimmed things. Not particularly impressed with someone who bases things of Freud when defining how women are in society.
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A problem I see in 2017 in scholarship, politics, society, everything down to weather forecasting is when people think you have to be "all or nothing" on every possible topic. Freud did a lot of important work before going off the rails with the incest fetish and whatnot. You can't throw it all out.
True. I fully believe that women and men are different. You can do PET scans in blind studies and see the difference. (Transgendered people will have brains like the gender they identify with). I looked at the Wiki page and was underwhelmed. COuld be I have a hair across my a55 about a few of the things he said regarding women that I wasn't impressed with. Seems a bit patriarchal.
1.) I can understand- he's at his most arrogant when claiming that patriarchal structures are built into reality, and we'd best deal with it: he's not talking about domineering women, but it comes across as man-splaining to our p.c. Sensibilities.
I don't personally have any facts available on this stuff, but from what I can recall of Peterson: